This is something of a non-story, I think (by which I mean not that the subject matter of the piece isn't important, or that the event that prompted Mr Hendy's documentary isn't tragic, but that it doesn't lead anywhere). Mr Hendy is asking the same question that anybody who has had a loved one taken from them, particularly in violent, untimely circmstances would ask... why? The only difference being that Mr Hendy was able to make a documentary, and get it airtime on national TV.
Scale of mental health homicides 'is being played down'
Obviously, whether the number is 50 or 100 mentally ill murderers, per year, that's quite a lot. However, I see no comparative for "sane" murderers... What proportion of the mentally ill vs the sane commits murders, each year? To be honest, I'd be surprised if the mentally ill were any more violent than the sane... In fact, I'd suggest that the mentally ill just aren't quite as good at hiding their violence. Or perhaps they deliberately make no attempt to hide it...
Anyway, as I wrote: something of a non-story.
Addendum:
If I were to extrapolate from the little I know of this story, I would say that Mr Hendy would find it easier to deal with the death of his father, if he knew that he had been killed in a botched robbery, by a "sane" person. From this, I can only assume that Mr Hendy believes that the mentally ill person who killed his father did so for no reason at all - (s)he just suddenly decided, in complete isolation to everything else that was going on in his/her mind, that murder must be done, and Mr Hendy's father got in the way. That scenario is not possible...
Mr Hendy snr may well have been unfortunate to be in the wrong place, at the wrong time, but there was nothing illogical about what the murderer did, given the way that (s)he understood the world. But as to how and why I know that... Well, that's my secret.
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The Winers: Yes, I imagine that you have been. Good luck.
Good luck: If you have to claim victory, then it's probably debateable, because it looks like stalemate, to me. And it's only stalemate, because I allowed you that degree of dignity. If you try to win, you will reveal yourself.
Reveal yourself: Any movement, yet?
Movement, yet: No movement, at all.
All: Goodbye.
Goodbye: Goodbye.
Goodbye, Goodbye: That's right: I'm not allowing you to "loop back" into your previous train of thought. If you persist, you will become disorientated, and confused. Don't do that, because from what I can see, you will become frightened that you have lost control of things, and begin to lash out. That wouldn't be fair on the person who got in the way, now would it?
So, I suggest you try to run with the discussion, rather than seeking to anchor yourself in your current reality, which doesn't look like a good place, quite frankly. Mind you, this is my territory, so you'd have to trust that I wasn't leading you somewhere "inappropriate," wouldn't you? After what you've said, thus far, I'd be willing to bet that you'll find that level of trust difficult to attain.
So, where are you going to go, from here, without a guide?
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